July shock

chicken 'n chips Wrote:

---

> Sums up the state and organisation of sa racing in
> a nut shell

.....not far wrong.....my arms length participation will soon become.....no participation....one has got to be blind not to notice the warts and all...because it's becoming one massive wart....I have no July Fever.....a big dose of cold bucket reality when the 1st log became a carded race

Lets be honest.........Greyville was never going to be truly fit for the July but if all conditions had been perfect it may have gone unnoticed..........but no such luck!

As a poster said the other day.................................there is either too much rain.........or too little...........too much sun ...or too little...........too much wind ........or too little.

One thing is for sure ..............................there is far too little of something

Common sense?

This for me is the thing that racing lacks most,in so many spheres.

The excuses they are coming up with are pathetic to say the least. I live in Durban and it is not monsoon season by any stretch of the imagination... we have had a couple of solid downpours but it doesn't warrant all this drama.

There were measures taken to achieve perfection on July day even back in the good old days. About 16/17 years ago I walked the track with a trainer the day before the race. The going was good, no complaints. You would think that was enough yet on our way down the straight we walked past some guys with backpacks on, spraying the last 100m along the inside the perfect shade of green... it was an endless source of amusement for me ()

during the last 8 days, we have only had 3 days of normal training tracks to work on at Clairwood. On Sunday, whilst the Breeders Day was racing at Clairwood, you could clearly see the waterlogged Training tracks. There has been a hell of a lot of rain down here. Not an excuse, just a fact, not a monsoon, but a hell of a lot of steady rain.

This amount of rain should not throw our biggest racing production into such a flat spin though... honestly, we should be doing better than this!